original description(ofLonginella Laseron, 1957) Laseron, C. F. (1957). A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 8(3): 274-311.page(s): 286 [details]

Grammatical gender masculine under provisions of ICZN Art 30.1.4.2. "A genus-group name that is or ends in a word of common or variable gender (masculine or feminine) is to be treated as masculine unless its author, when establishing the name, stated that it is feminine or treated it as feminine in combination with an adjectival species-group name". Cossmann (1899) proposed this name as a section of Marginella, did not use any name combined with it and made no statement about gender. Most authors erroreously treated it as feminine. [details]